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Time Machine supports two forms of exclusion: one based on a user-configured list of paths (plus a set of system defaults), the other based on the extended file attribute com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem dependencies. Since the attribute is applied to the file or directory directly, moving or copying will not affect the exclusion.
Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3) Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop; System Settings – default Mac system option application; UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding; Xsan – storage network utility; Yahoo! Widget Engine – JavaScript-based widget system
Time Machine is a backup mechanism first introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date, and allows the user to restore the whole system or specific files.
For most users, the most noticeable changes were: the disk space that the operating system frees up after a clean install compared to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a more responsive Finder rewritten in Cocoa, faster Time Machine backups, more reliable and user-friendly disk ejects, a more powerful version of the Preview application, as well as a ...
Deploying solutions based on reboot to restore technology allows users to define a system configuration as the desired state. The baseline is the point that is restored on reboot. Once the baseline is set, the reboot to restore software continues to restore that configuration every time the device restarts or switches on after a shutdown. [3]
Apple Software Restore or asr is a command line utility in Mac OS X used to apply a DMG disk image to a selected partition or mount point on a file system. It is often used for cloning large numbers of Macintosh computers. Apple Software Restore can read an image locally or from a server via HTTP or its own multicast asr:// URI.
For a list of current programs, see List of Mac software. Third-party databases include VersionTracker , MacUpdate and iUseThis . Since a list like this might grow too big and become unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists.
Time Machine, an automated backup utility which allows the user to restore files that have been deleted or replaced by another version of a file. [29] Though generally lauded in the press as a step forward for data recovery, Time Machine has been criticized in multiple publications for lacking the capabilities of third-party backup software.